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A NOTE ON 
THE GOLD MEDAL PRIZE ESSAY, 1892. 
BY 
LIEUT.-COLONEL J. F. BROUGH, R.H.A. 
Haying read Major A. M. Murray’s very able Prize Essay, I hope I 
may be permitted to offer a few remarks, in the nature of suggestions 
thereon. 
In Part III. a programme is outlined for the annual training of every 
battery on the following lines :— 
1st Week.—Sub-divisional drill. 
2nd Week.—Section drill. 
3rd Week.—Instruction in the gun park under the Battery 
Commander. 
4th Week.—Instruction of the battery in the field under the 
Battery Commander. 
5th and 6th Week.—Combined manoeuvres of batteries un¬ 
der their Lieut.-Colonel. 
The programme is a sound one no doubt. But Major Murray lays 
down, and I think most will agree with him, that to enable batteries 
to properly carry out suck a course, each battery should be taken off 
regimental and garrison duties in turn. 
Now, if the course is commenced on the 15th March, how does he 
propose to have all batteries completed in it by, say, the middle of 
May ? 
The 1st Division Field Artillery Course at Okehampton began on 
the 14th May this year. 
Supposing three batteries to constitute the Lieut.-Colonel’s com¬ 
mand, and the separate course of each to occupy one month, and the 
combined manoeuvres under the Lieut.-Colonel to occupy two weeks, 
then, commencing on the 15th March — 
The 1st Battery would finish on the 15th April. 
The 2nd „ „ „ „ 15th May. 
The 3rd „ „ ,, „ 15th June. 
The combined manoeuvres ,, ,, 1st July. 
Simple, therefore, as Major Murray’s proposal may seem, and gladly 
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